Roland C. Warren serves as president of National Fatherhood Initiative (NFI), whose mission is to improve the well-being of children by increasing the proportion of children growing up with involved, responsible, and committed fathers. Roland directs the organization’s national strategy and leads NFI’s work via its comprehensive, “three e” strategy of educating, equipping, and engaging fathers and all sectors of society to strengthen fatherhood. Roland represents NFI in the national media, manages its national media campaign promoting responsible fatherhood, and oversees FatherSOURCE, the nation’s largest collection of fatherhood resources.
Roland serves as a board member for the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, on the Advisory Board for the Alpha Leadership Project D.C. College Access Program, and the Advisory Council for the Ready to Learn Partnership. Prior to his position at NFI, Roland worked for Goldman, Sachs and Co., where he managed investments for the firm’s select group of high net worth clients. He is a graduate of Princeton University and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned his MBA. A native of Toledo, Ohio, Roland grew up without his father and is passionate about reversing the trend that has left one out of every three children in America in a father-absent home.